Classroom courses are designed to function as Instructor-led Training (ILT), either in a physical location or via webinar using a preferred web meeting application. After a Portal Administrator creates a Classroom course, he or an authorized Instructor can create Offerings, which students use to enroll in the course for a specific date, time, and location. If you have our add-on Virtual Classroom license, many of the same options apply to the Virtual Classroom Delivery Type.
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This document assumes a prerequisite knowledge of creating classroom courses and offerings. It will only reference those points relevant to Classroom courses and Offerings. If you need to review, please read the linked document “Add Classroom Courses and Offerings.”
LMS administrators can also edit an existing Offering by searching for it under Courses > Search Offerings, or from within its related Course by selecting the Offerings tab.
Note: Offering dates can be modified only if no one has been enrolled in the offering. Once a user has enrolled, only the Meeting Times can be edited.
However, you do not have to cancel an entire offering just to modify the Start Date, even after students have enrolled. Instead, you can open the Offering, click the Meeting Times tab, then the (A) Add Meeting Times link. Add the updated offering date and time information. You can also use this page to add additional days to the offering in cases where training spans multiple days. To delete a meeting time, you must have a least one other in place. Then, check the (B) Delete flag for the meeting time being removed and click (C) Delete Selected Times.
Just as administrators can set due date reminders at the course level, they can also set up automated Reminder Messages to alert enrolled students of their upcoming Classroom or Virtual Classroom Offerings.
On the Offering Details page, select the Messages tab, and indicate how many days prior to the offering you would like to send a (A) Reminder Message to students. Any default set at the course level will populate. The Additional Note section is optional, and will pull into the default email message. Ad hoc class Announcements can also be sent to enrolled students from this page.
An example of these settings is shown below.
Attachments may be added to an Offering before or after it takes place. They can be required to close an offering by selecting the Require Attachment to Close Offering flag on the General tab of the offering or on the Offering Defaults tab of the classroom course. Attachment management is available for those with Portal Administrator or Administrator roles, as well as the Instructor assigned to the offering. Attachments are not visible to Student, Location Administrator, or Location Manager roles. Examples of attachments made prior to an offering may include items such as agendas for the instructor to print or special instructions for managing the classroom. Examples of post-offering attachments could be scanned copies of signed attendance sheets or lists of action items or notes culminating from the session.
Click Add Attachment to list a new attachment. After adding attachments, the Attachments tab displays a red counter to indicate the number of attachments in the list. Further actions to Edit, Launch, or Delete an attachment are found under the Action column of the list.
